Rural Literacies identifies the problems inherent in trying to understand rural literacy, addresses the lack of substantive research on literacy in rural areas, and reviews traditional misrepresentations of rural literacy. This innovative volume frames debates over literacy in relation to larger social, political, and economic forces, such as the impact of the No Child Left Behind Act on rural schools and the effects of out-migration, globalization, and the loss of small family farms on rural communities. Drawing upon traditional literacy and composition research and employing...
Rural Literacies identifies the problems inherent in trying to understand rural literacy, addresses the lack of substantive research on literac...
In "Reclaiming the Rural: Essays on Literacy, Rhetoric, and Pedagogy," editors Kim Donehower, Charlotte Hogg, and Eileen E. Schell bring together a diverse collection of essays that consider literacy, rhetoric, and pedagogy in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The essays move beyond the typical arguments for preserving, abandoning, or modernizing by analyzing how rural communities sustain themselves through literate action. The contributors explore the rhetorics of water disputes in the western United States, the histories and influences of religious rhetoricsin Mexico, agricultural and...
In "Reclaiming the Rural: Essays on Literacy, Rhetoric, and Pedagogy," editors Kim Donehower, Charlotte Hogg, and Eileen E. Schell bring together a di...
Appalachia faces overwhelming challenges that plague many rural areas across the country, including poorly funded schools, stagnant economic development, corrupt political systems, poverty, and drug abuse. Its citizens, in turn, have often been the target of unkind characterizations depicting them as illiterate or backward. Despite entrenched social and economic disadvantages, the region is also known for its strong sense of culture, language, and community.
In this innovative volume, a multidisciplinary team of both established and rising scholars challenge Appalachian stereotypes...
Appalachia faces overwhelming challenges that plague many rural areas across the country, including poorly funded schools, stagnant economic develo...
In this innovative volume, a multidisciplinary team of scholars challenge Appalachian stereotypes through an examination of language and rhetoric. Together, the contributors offer a new perspective on Appalachia and its literacy, hoping to counteract essentialist or class-based arguments about the region's people, and reexamine past research in the context of researcher bias.
In this innovative volume, a multidisciplinary team of scholars challenge Appalachian stereotypes through an examination of language and rhetoric. Tog...
